Five prison officers at the Angunukolapelessa prison have been suspended for their alleged involvement in a brutal assault of inmates last week.
The Court of Appeal ordered for notice to be served on the Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam and former Navy chief Wasantha Karannagoda to appear in court on October 29 over the former's decision to not press charges over the abduction and enforced disappearance of 11 youth.
Ten Tamils, including women, who were arrested five months ago for commemorating the war dead, were ordered to be further remanded.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is planning to launch protests against the government after being accused of not intervening to solve problems of the oppressed people in the North.
The Supreme Court yesterday granted leave to hear a fundamental rights petition filed by former Western Province Governor Azath Salley seeking his release.
The Cabinet on Tuesday (12) granted approval to the proposals to draft two bills on cyber security laws.
Health trade unions in the country say that the disruption of the work of the new PCR laboratory at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) was carried out deliberately to appease the quarantine hotel mafia in the country.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's statement that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet should work together as he had limited political experience is an admission that the 20th Amendment to the Constitution has failed, former Prime Minister and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
